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BOTTLE.

4 Patented Aug. 2-8, 1894.

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FREDERICK E. BLAISDELL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OFONE-THIRD TO ELMER TAYLOR, OF SAME PLACE.

BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 525,129, dated August28, 1894. Application filed January 28,1893. smart. 460,137. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK E. BLAIS- DELL, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at the city of Philadelphia,-in the county ofPhiladelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have vinvented certain new anduseful Improvements in Bottles, of which the following is aspecification, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

It is the custom among bottlers of beer and otherbeverages, to sell onlythe beverage and retain the ownership of the bottle in which the same isfurnished to the customers, who are expected to return the bottle whenempty to the bottler, to be refilled. 'But, inasmuch as the bottles usedare convenient receptacles for holding various liquids, it is found thatthey are frequently permanently retained by those into whose hands theyfall, and the 'bottler is consequently compelled to replace all suchbottles so retained at great inconvenienceand expense; and the object ofmy invention is to provide a bottle of such form thatthe same will beutterlyuseless to the general public, for the reason that the same canonly be closed or'stopped by the insertion in the throat orifice thereofof a stopper or seal of peculiar form, which'can only be inserted insuch bottle by'the use of a costly and cumbersome machine, which onlypersons engaged in thebottling business can afford to possess; whereby,such bottles being of no use to the persons to whom the contents aresold, the same will invariably be returned to the bottler when emptied;and this I accomplish by means of the peculiar construction of myimproved form of bottle, shown and described in the followingspecification of which theaccompanying drawings form a part, whereinsimilar letters of reference designate like orequivalent parts whereverfound throughout the several views, and in which-- Figure 1 is, a topplan view of my improved form of bottle; Figs. 2 and 4, views similar toFig. 1 of modified forms of the construction shown in Fig, 1, and Fig.3, a side-view, in central vertical section thereof, of the top or neckportion'of my saidimproved form of bottle.

'My invention consists broadly in forming a bottle, with a throatorifice or outlet which is contracted near the outer end thereof byaflange which projects inward over such out-. let in such manner as toretain in the enlarged portion of the throat orifice below, such flange,an expansible stopper which has been forced through the contractedportion, and in making the contracted portion of the throat orificepassing through and surrounded by the flange of any irregular form otherthan acircle, which cannot be tightly closedv by the ins'ertion thereinof a circular cork of ordinary form.

Referring to the drawings :The reference letter A designates the neck ofthe bottle, and this neck is turned over inward at or near the topthereof so as to form a flange a which projects inward over the mainportion a of the throat orifice or outlet, which main portion a formsthe chamber beneath such flange a in which the expansible seal R expandsafter being inserted therein, by being forced through the irregularopening through the flange, and while the opening through the flange isnecessarily of some, irregular form other than a true circle, the largerportion a of the throat orifice, beneath the flange, is preferably-ofsubstantially circular form as shown.

As will be seen by an examination of Figs. 1, 2, and 4, wherein thecircular dotted lines show the area of the enlarged or expanded portionof the throat orifice or outlet at, as compared with the area of theirregular orifice through the flange a, the greatest diameter of theirregular orifice through such flange, is'in all cases considerably lessthan the diameter of the circular expanded portion of the throat orificeimmediately below such flange, and by making my bottle of thisconstruction, and using a compressible elastic and expansible sealwhich'will expand beneath the flange a so as to completely fill the areaof the expanded portion a of the throat orifice or outlet, I am able todo away with the use of a seat formed separate from the bottle andintroduced through the irregular orifice and cemented in positionbeneath the flange a, as is the case with bottles using non-expansibleseals, and in bottles of this form, unlesssuch separate seat is used, orthe diameter of the expanded portion a of the throat orifice or outletof the bottle is greater than the greatest diameter of the irregularorifice or outlet, as it is formed in my improved bottle shown herein,so that the outer portion of the flange nearest the wall of the bottleneck forms itself a circular unbroken seat for the expansible seal, itwill be impossible, especially when beer and other eflfervescent fluidsare placed in the bottles, to prevent leakage around the edge of thestopper at the point where there is no flange above the same, even whensuch expansible seals are used, and especially so when seals of hardinflexible material designed to be inserted through the irregularorifice edgewise are used.

It will be seen upon examination of the drawings that while it ispossible to close bottles of my improved form of construction withexpansible seals of the form shown at R which are forced through theirregular orifice in the flange a, and which expand in the main portiona, of the throat orifice or outlet, that an ordinary stopper of circularform, or of any form which doesnot expand beneath the flange a will notclose the bottle. In other Words a round stopper cannot be made i to fitthe irregular orifice in the flange Ct,

and inasmuch as the seal R can only be inserted in the bottle by aspecial machine, such bottles will be useless to persons other thanthose engaged in the bottling business and having such machines, andwill consequently be returned to the owner.

It is evident that many changes and modifications in the form of theorifice in the flange a, and also in other portions of my improvedbottle, may be made without departing from the scope of my invention,and I do not intend to limit myself to the exact form of constructionshown, but

Having now particularly described and ascertained the natureof my saidinvention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A bottle having a throat orifice or outlet, the main portion of whichoutlet is of substantially circular form in cross-section, and a flangeprojecting inward over the main portion of such orifice or outlet insuch manner as to retain beneath it an expansible seal, that portion ofthe throat orifice or outlet passing through and surrounded by theflange being of a form other than a true circle and smaller in itsgreatest diameter than is the main portion of the outlet below the same,substantially as shown and described.

2. A bottle having a throat orifice or outlet, the main portion of whichoutlet is of substantially circular form in cross-section, and a flangeprojecting inward over the main portion of such orifice or outlet insuch manner as to retain beneath it an expansible seal and having apassage through and surrounded by the same of a form other than a circlewhich cannot be closed by the insertion of a circularcork of ordinaryform therein, such passage through the flange being smaller in itsgreatest diameter than is the throat orifice immediately below theflange, and that portion of the under side of the flange lying nearestto the wall of the main portion of the outlet or orifice forming acircular unbroken seat for the seal, substantially as shown anddescribed.

3. A bottle having a flange projecting inward over the throat orifice oroutlet thereof near the outer end of such orifice in such manner as toretain beneath the same an expansible seal, that portion of the outletpassing through and surrounded by the flange being of irregular form incross-section and smaller in its greatest diameter than is the throatorifice immediately belowfthe same, and that portion of: the under-side015 the flange lying nearest to the wall of? the main portionof theoutlet or orifice forming a circular unbroken seatfor the seal,substantially as shown and described,

4. A bottle having a contracted throat orifice or ontlet oflessdiameterthan themain portion or body of the bottle, and a thin-flange projecting inward over such throat orifice or outlet and havinga passage through 'andsurrounded by the same of an irregular form otherthan a circle which cannot be closed by the insertion therein ofacircular cork of ordinary form, the passage through the flange beingsmaller in its greatestdiameter than is the main portion ofthe throatorifice or outlet immediately below such flange, and that portion of tthe under sideof the flange lying nearest to the wall of the mainportion of the throat orifice or outlet forminga circularunbroken seatfor the expansible seal when the same is inserted in' the bottle,substantially as shown and described.

5. Thecombination with a bottle havinga throat orifice or outletof lessdiameter than the main or body portion ofthe bottle, and a flangeprojecting inward over such throat orifice or outlet and having apassage through and surrounded by the same-of an irregular non-circularform which cannot be closed by the insertion therein of a circularstopper or cork of ordinary form, such passage through the flange beingsmallerin its greatest diameter than is the main portion of the throatorifice or outlet immediately below the same, and that portion of theunder side of the flange lying nearest to the wall of the main portionof the throat orifice oroutlet'forming a circular unbroken seatrfor aninterior seal, of an expansible seal held in the throat orifice belowthe flange and against the seat' after being forced through theirregular passage through the flange, substantially as shown anddescribed.

6. The combination with a bottle having a throat orifice or outlet of:less diameter than the main or body portionlofthe bottle, and a flangeprojecting inward over such throat orifice or outlet and havingapassagethrough and surrounded by the same of an irregular non-circular formwhich cannot be closed by the insertion therein of a circular stopper orcork of ordinary form, such passage through the flange being smaller inits greatest diameter than is the main portion of the throat orifice oroutlet immediately below the same, and that portion of the under side ofthe flange lying nearest to the wall of the main portion of the throatorifice or outlet forming acircular unbroken seat for an interior seal,the flange and seat formed by a portion of

